Movies with cinematographer Kramer Morgenthau
Creed II, the follow-up to 2015’s surprisingly successful Creed, runs afoul of a common problem to plague unplanned sequels: the need to match audience expectations trumps all other concerns, including creative latitude. The eighth installment...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-11-21
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama/Action
Director: Steven Caple Jr.
Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, ...
Call it The Golden Compass rule: No multi-part movie series should be started without a reasonable certainty that the story will be told in full. And, although The Golden Compass’ planned sequels were the first recent films to fall afoul of t...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-08-03
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Director: Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Cast: Amandla Stenberg, Harris Dickinson, Skylan Brooks, ...
The Express is the latest movie to join an ever-expanding subgenre of the "sports movie" category: fact-based films that explore the impacts of integration into various contests during the latter half of the 20th century. We have already seen prod...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-10-10
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Gary Fleder
Cast: Rob Brown, Dennis Quaid, Darrin Dewitt Henson, ...
It's a little surprising to encounter a film like Feast of Love in multiplexes, because it is made for adults. After a summer of pyrotechnics and incredibly dumb scripts, it's a change of pace to find something that aspires to run for 100 minutes w...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-09-28
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Nudity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Robert Benton
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Billy Burke, Jane Alexander, ...
Fracture is refreshingly different from the average mystery thriller in that it does not bombard the audience with "shocking" twists and "surprise" turns. This is a good thing, since those kinds of gimmicky plot elements more often than not derail...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-04-20
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, ...
Rebel in the Rye, which tells the story of author J.D. Salinger, falls into the pernicious trap that ensnares many a bio-pic: trying to present too broad a chronology in too limited a time. Utilizing an unwieldy structure that involves a flash...
U.S. Release Date: 2017-09-15
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content, War Violence)
Genre: Drama
Director: Danny Strong
Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Kevin Spacey, Sarah Paulson, ...
He's back. After not appearing in a Terminator film for 12 years, Arnold Schwarzenegger has returned to one of the roles that made him the biggest action star of the '80s and early '90s. Will anyone care? This is the seventh film Schwa...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-07-01
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Partial Nudity)
Genre: Science Fiction/Action
Director: Alan Taylor
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emilia Clarke, Jason Clarke, ...
Thor: The Dark World offers the kind of straightforward action/adventure yarn that adherents of the genre will appreciate. It's an example of superhero filmmaking 101 at work with high octane fights and special effects-fueled eye candy trumping nar...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-11-08
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Alan Taylor
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Idris Elba, Rene Russo, ...